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'Pro-life' murderers
women's reproductive lives are a war zone. The anti-choice opponents admit it. "We are in ... On December 30, two Brookline (Boston), Massachusetts, reproductive health clinics suffered the ... cold-blooded murders of two women. The women fatally shot were 25-year-old Shannon Lowney and 38-year-old Lee ...
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Western Sahara: ‘We only want our country’
people carried those who couldn’t walk on their backs. Everyone — the women, the children, the men — went ... maritime resources. Many Saharawi fled to refugee camps on the border with Algeria. However, most of the ... men returned to fight for independence. On February 27, 1976, the Polisario Front declared the ...
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1975 and the 'end of reform'
invade East Timor, a war that's really about oil resources. In Melbourne, a Labor Party stalwart ... performers rehearsed during the invasion of Iraq. On the day of its first performance, Indonesia invaded Aceh ... Award in 1997. Vela has composed music for Melbourne Workers Theatre, Brunswick Women's Theatre and ...
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United States: Black Lives Matter movement grows stronger
Americans. In World War II, white women were hired to work in war plants ahead of Blacks. A March on ... San Francisco Chronicle wrote on July 31. “They worry about the next time they interact with police, ... statistics on police stops of Blacks and violence mirror other cities, especially in the Midwest and South. ...
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Opposition mounts to French nuclear tests
By Pip Hinman On June 29, more than 15,000 people took part in a "flotilla for peace" ... to Greenpeace's Stephanie Mills on board the Rainbow Warrior, Chirac's attempt to suppress ... anti-nuclear protests on some of the smaller Pacific islands. The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC), ...
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Students fight voluntary student membership in NZ
the anti-Vietnam War, anti-Springbok tour, homosexual law reform, the women's liberation ... associations to run referendums on "compulsory" membership by May 1 this year. ZANNY BEGG spoke to NZ ... national legislation, but due to students' pressure on New Zealand First [a government coalition ...
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BRITAIN: Salesmen of death
Islamic regime on earth, where apostates are beheaded. Women have no rights; it is illegal for a woman ... oppression of women” in Afghanistan by the Taliban and demanded their emancipation, has remained silent on ... post-September 11 “war on terrorism”, which is not a war on terrorism at all but a justification for the US to ...
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UNITED STATES: Kerry v Bush: Is this really a choice?
Vietnam War 30 years ago. Kerry says "me too". The list could go on and on. From the right of ... Parties as a whole. In some cases, Kerry is trying to out-Bush Bush. On the war on terrorism, Kerry is ... presidential candidates of the two mainstream parties agree on far more than anyone would have guessed when ...
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AFGHANISTAN: Bush and Blair's hidden agenda
that America's economic wars are now backed by the perpetual threat of military attack on any ... BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — The Anglo-American attack on Afghanistan crosses new boundaries. It means ... extraordinary [October 2] speech to the Labour Party conference, puts us on notice that imperialism's ...
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Small nation, big message
Women, the true custodians of the land on Bougainville, were at the forefront of early protests against ... free market economy, of promises of globalisation with a human face. The US-led "war against ... terrorism" has rained yet more death and destruction on the people of Afghanistan. The globalisers are on ...
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Refugee crisis, activism and alternatives
return to Europe, and most of the passengers died in the Holocaust they were fleeing. After World War II, ... World at War report said in 2014 there were 19.5 million refugees and close to 60 million people ... billions on keeping asylum seekers out. In Europe this includes building walls, like those in construction ...
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IRAQ: Withdrawal talk White House spin
with US President George Bush's handling of the Iraq war in the mid-term congressional elections ... from Iraq. In a surprise visit to Baghdad on April 26, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and ... a "partial withdrawal" of US troops from Iraq. On April 21, Nouri (Jawad) al Maliki, the public ...
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Ethiopia: who the rebels are
oppression, war and starvation that have made Ethiopia and Eritrea synonymous with suffering. On May 28, Meles ... into committees: women's committees, peasants committees, militia committees and so on, with ... budget being spent on the war, the Mengistu dictatorship resorted to expropriating all agricultural ...
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A woman's place is in the struggle: Fighting for jobs and communities
March, which tied the US war on Iraq to the cutbacks in social spending, Stokely says: "While this ... the workers in these jobs are women, women of colour and immigrant women." Now these workers face ... on assistance. Many families reached that limit by 2000. Now, President George W. Bush is mounting ...
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VENEZUELA: The threat of a decent society
laugh — stand and speak at an urban land council on subjects ranging from homelessness to the Iraq war ... "Bolivarian revolution", which, at this stage, is not dissimilar to the post-war European social ... president in 1999, he held an unprecedented number of votes: a referendum on whether or not people wanted ...
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Joe Owens: a fallen comrade remembered
anti-Vietnam War campaign. He was also a key player in the democratisation of the BLF that included a limit on ... general branch released the statement below on September 7. * * * CFMEU State Secretary Brian Parker today ... played a key role in other social issues such as the push for Indigenous and women’s rights and the ...
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Hands off St Mary's Church!
problems of homelessness, of abuse, of refugees... if he wants to focus on such idiotic matters", a St ... Mary's parishioner told a 500-strong packed gathering at the South Brisbane church on August 25 in ... is enormously popular for its pro-social justice stances: homosexual couples are blessed; women can ...
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Same people, different hats
Afghanistan are deceptive", Zaher said. "Putting two women in the cabinet, allowing music — these ... changed very little. Power is still based on race or clan, the law is still based on Islamic ... blood for 22 years. The war in Afghanistan hasn't stopped, its continuation is in the best ...
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Unions fired up to take action
ABCC, and the war on workers and their unions. The meeting also voted to hold another combined unions ... meeting Gadigal Country/Sydney Delegates from several unions met in Sydney on July 28 and voted ... unanimously to call for a statewide day of action on October 18 in response to attacks on penalty rates, the ...
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Fascism threatens Italy once more
in Italy. The Italian government, however, does not always seem able to pick up on this social ... most parliamentary seats, is losing the political struggle on the issue of immigration against the ... severe restrictions on migrants in Italy. Anti-immigrant Also, PD secretary Matteo Renzi recently stated: ...
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Worst terror attacks in history
August 6 and August 9 will mark the 60th anniversaries of the US atomic-bomb attacks on the ... A-bomb on Nagasaki, resulting in the deaths of at least 70,000 people before the year was out. Since ... there was no other choice but to use A-bombs in order to avoid a bitter, prolonged invasion of Japan. On ...
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The next Dr Haneef?
also spoken at rallies and forums in opposition to the wars on Iraq, and in support of justice for the ... diversity at Griffith refreshing, in these times of a hysterical 'war on terror', it seems such ... extreme Islam". The serious accusations are based solely on GU receiving $100,000 funding from the ...
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Â鶹ӳ» Weekly's $250,000 fighting fund: You don't know what you have until you lose it
activist from US Labor Against the War. "I hope Australians realise how lucky they are to have ... a national newspaper that comprehensively covers today's critical issues facing workers, women ... and the questionable motives and actions of governments who have waged an unprovoked war in Iraq. ...
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Difficult road for Yugoslav peace caravan
the idea that it is possible to oppose the war." Vucic is from Split on Croatia's Dalmatian ... By Peter Annear PRAGUE — When 400 peace campaigners set out at the end of September in buses on ... a small breach in the war mentality that has engulfed Yugoslavia. The political tensions were evident from ...
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ALP's desperate rebadging could mask a shift to right
Australia. Julia Gillard displaced Kevin Rudd as PM on June 24 after a surprise leadership challenge that ... Gillard as deputy PM. Australian mining shares shot up on the stock exchanges as soon as Gillard's ... information campaign on the proposed Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT). She added that here door was open to ...